Mike Perham, of the memcached Dalli gem and the Sidekiq gem, just wrote an article entitled, “Five Common Rails Mistakes.” In it, he highlights five, common problems he finds when working with inherited Rails apps.

Jim Neath posted a git pre-commit hook over on his blog that will automatically precompile and commit any assets which have changed since your last commit. This keeps your precompiled assets in your repository for faster deployments.

Jakub Suder just wrote up a short article on how to extend the asset pipeline with your own, custom preprocessors. With them, you can dynamically manipulate any compiled assets, modifying their content or any other environment setting.

This weekend, Jean-Philippe Boily released a new Rails, mountable blogging engine called Monologue. It basically adds blog features directly into your current Rails application without any significant external dependency craziness.

This week the Pipeline still has its Dummies, Rails Behaviors push the unobtrusiveness, the post-RailsConf Issues hunt continues,
Exhibits & Presenters help you to decorate, and the Signals pay attention to details. Meanwhile Rails 4 picks up pace, we talk to Santiago about Rails-API and all the secrets of RailsConf 2012 are revealed!

A whole squad of Ruby5 hosts reports from RailsConf 2012 in Austin. We discuss the DHH keynote, Rails on Roombas, the fact that Confreaks is now filming all talks, progressive enhancement on mobile, sharing your appreciation to community contributors and the Ruby Hero Awards ceremony.